Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
A Budget Of Useful Information Upon
Household and Agricultural
Topics.
Matters Of Interest Relating to Farm,
Orchard. Stable, Parlor, and
Kitchen.
THE FARMER.
They Sold o.a aud Haze Nothfng.


IN these hard times it requires some
figuring to show any profit at farming.
With good improved farm, we'll stocked,
and oil paid for, do not know of pleas
anter and more independent way of max
ing comfortable living, relieved of many
OF the worries attending q mercantile or
any other business, and enjoying many
little luxuries which We would not probably
get in any other pursuit. But take man
with only small payment made on the
farm, with machinery, etc., to buy, and in
terest growing night and day, it is hard,
uphill work all the time to make both
ends meet at the end of the year. Times
are hard now in all sorts of business, so
we must not grumble but keep on-we
might try farther and fare worse. can
name a number who had made living for
years on the farm, but who sold out and
went into other business. Many of them
have nothing now. To go from farm to
the city and find all the little things that
cost you nothing on the farm have to be
bought, is something many never think
about. A little kindling-wood to make the
morning fire, n cup of milk to make some-
thing, little piece of butter, an egg or
two, and scores of little things which we
as farmers think nothing of-when they
have to be bought, amount to quite sum
at the years end.-Detroit Free Press.
Farm Notes.
THIS country requires the milk from 49,
600, 900 COWS, they require 60,00O,0O0 acres
for food and 100000 men are needed for
their care.
II is estimated that the make Of cheese
this year will be heavier than last year, and
low prices are anticipated. Buyers are re-
ported rs holding Off.
ANOTHER point in radish culture: When
pulling up radish, drop a seed or two in
the same spot and thus secure a lasting
crop throughout the season.
ALL sour milk is not complete food.
1t will make calf look old, rough, and
unsightly. Put oil-meal and wheat-bran
with the milk and the calf will be beauty.
IT is said that strips of cloth or old rags
saturated with kerosene, with additional
kerosene poured on the rags at intervals of
three or four days, will prevent the attacks
of the striped cucumber beetle.
For grapes put ten drops of spirits of
turpentine in q pint of water and give no
other liquid to the chicks to drink. Put n
teaspeonful of turpentine in n quart of
corn meal and feed. Turpentine instantly
destroys the grape worm.
INJURIOUS insects demand attention
throughout the summer months. Look
for the borers near the base of young fruit
trees, if sawdust is seen to drop from hole
in the bark, or if a portion of the bark is
seen to be depressed, cut ont the borer.
TURN the sheep upon those lands that
give the most trouble with weeds. Sheep
prefer short grazing, and will eat nearly
all kinds of young weeds as soon as they
shoot above the ground. They also scatter
their manure evenly and benefit the soil.
The practice so common among farmers
who attempt to raise small fruits only for
home use, of planting them and then al
lowing them to run wild, is pernicious to
say the least, and is the cause of 80 much
grumbling on their part because nothing
will bear.
PLACE ashes freely around Che young
peach-trees, but do not use any stable man
ure. Chemical fertilizers are excellent,
especially the potash salts. Well tlecom-
posed compost, made from old sod and
scrapings, makes an excellent fertilizer
for them. The ground should be kept
clean.
FARMERS are beginning to find out, says
the Husbandman, that it is not paying
them to husk, grind, and mix feed for
stock; that the corn that is fed on the farm
should never be separated from the stock
on which it grew, but fed together, and
save at least one-fourth Of the labor and
the uncalled- for expense of husking and
grinding.